A Lincolnshire Police officer has been charged with two counts of sexual touching
Liam Shields has been charged in relation to alleged offences between February and May 2019 and in May 2022. Lincolnshire Police said the 24-year-old, who was based in Stamford, had been suspended from duty and the matter had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Assistant Chief Constable Kerrin Wilson said the […]
Man jailed for 21 years for attempted murder
Mohamed Shabaz, 19, of Manchester Road, Oldham, has today (27 May) been sentenced to 21 years behind bars following a violent knife attack in January last year. The court heard how on Saturday 30 January 2021, Shabaz approached his victim when he was arriving at the Markazia Mosque in the Darnall area of Sheffield and […]
Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old Olsi Kuka in Barnet have charged two more people with murder
A teenager 17, of Northants, and Santana Thompson, 19 of Aldriche Way, Waltham Forest, are due to appear at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, 28 May. Police were called by paramedics shortly before 03:00hrs on Wednesday, 11 May after receiving reports of an injured man in a flat off High Road, N20. Officers attended with […]
An investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command uncovered the man’s real-world identity via an extreme right wing forum
David Musins was arrested at his home on 10 November 2021 and after enquiries were carried out by counter terrorism detectives, he was charged with membership of a proscribed organisation. Commander Richard Smith, of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “This was a detailed investigation which led to an admission of guilt and the team should […]
A man who absconded from prison in Turkey while serving a 21-year-sentence for offences in the UK has been arrested following a joint operation between the Metropolitan Police Service, National Crime Agency and Moldovan authorities
Izzet Eren, 39, who is a Turkish national was detained in Chisinau, Moldova on Thursday, 26 May. Extradition proceedings are under way in Moldova. Eren was jailed in the UK in 2015 for firearms offences. While serving his sentence, he was transferred to a prison in Turkey in August 2019, and absconded from custody […]
A speeding driver has been jailed for more than two years after causing serious injury to a pedestrian in Canterbury
On Monday 25 January 2021, Jason Campbell was travelling over 60 miles-per-hour, twice the speed limit on Broad Oak Road, which meant he couldn’t stop his car quick enough to avoid colliding with a man who was crossing the street. Officers from Kent Police’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit discovered that Campbell had […]
A man who smuggled over £2,000 worth of drugs into prison has been jailed
Judah Morton-Wade, aged 42, of Hagley Road, Birmingham, was sentenced to five years and two months behind bars at Warwickshire Crown Court on Wednesday (18 May) after being found guilty of supplying a controlled drug of class A to another and two counts of supplying a controlled drug of class B to another. The […]
A 25-year-old man from London has been charged in connection with a number of drug offences
The charges relate to an incident in December 2021 when officers arrested two teenage boys, who were located at a property in Norwich, where a number of suspected Class A drugs and mobile phones were recovered. The boys were subsequently released under investigation. Following further enquiries, a 25-year-old man from London was arrested yesterday […]
A British man has been jailed for 18 years after admitting trying to smuggle two tonnes of cocaine worth £160m into the UK
Andrew Cole, 33, of Norton Road, Stockton on Tees, was aboard the luxury yacht, Kahu, when it was stopped 80 miles of the coast of Plymouth in an operation led by the National Crime Agency and supported by Border Force and the Australian Federal Police. Cole was the link between senior members of an […]
A drug driver who attacked a man with a metal pole went on to crash his car, flee the scene and spit in a police officer’s face
Rickey Howley, 32, was driving a white Seat Leon on 26 June 2020, when he became involved in a confrontation with a man and a woman in another vehicle. After arguing with the man in a carpark in Chadburn, Peterborough, Howley got a two-foot long metal pole out the boot of his vehicle. He […]
A disqualified driver who was stopped by police in Swindon has been handed a suspended jail sentence
Officers on patrol in the town in the early hours of 20 September 2021, spotted David Watkins-Rudman driving a blue Citroen on Swindon Road. He pulled to a stop and, when approached by police, it was discovered that he had a driving ban and subsequently didn’t have any insurance. Watkins-Rudman, 35, of Sheppard Street, […]
Three men from Telford have been jailed for producing cannabis
Elton Allaraj, Virion Allaraj and Kevin Bajrami were sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court today (Wednesday 25 May). An investigation by the Regional Organised Crime Unit led to two properties being searched in Wolverhampton and Telford on 19 November 2021. Around 100 cannabis plants were recovered. Virion Allaraj was arrested at the property in Wolverhampton […]
A man has admitted causing the death of father of two Philip Mersh in Leigh-on-Sea last year following an investigation by specialist detectives.
Forty-three year-old Philip was assaulted while out trick or treating with his family in Leigh Broadway on Halloween last year. He was taken to hospital but, sadly, he died two days later. Daniel Ballard, 31, of Lincoln Close, Southend was arrested following the assault and initially charged with GBH with intent, ABH, and common […]
A former pub landlord has been jailed for 21 years after carrying out a series of sexual assaults on four young girls he had groomed
Carl Marland of The Chequers pub, Ilford, London, was convicted of more than 20 offences in October 2021 after a trial at Manchester Crown Court and jailed yesterday. Among the charges he was found guilty of were three counts of rape and secretly filming one of the girls while she undressed. Marland would travel […]
The family of a young woman who was killed by a drink driver say they hope her death will act as a warning to others who think driving under the influence of alcohol is acceptable
Amy Purvis was driving from Barnard Castle back to her home in Richmond on the night of December 14 last year when a Nissan X-Trail drifted into her lane on the A66, striking her car head-on. The 36-year-old was taken to James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, with serious injuries but tragically passed away […]
There’s nothing like some fresh air to put a spring in your step. It’s time to get out there and join BBC Northern Ireland for the launch of The Big Walk
During the past few years walking has become increasingly popular right across Northern Ireland, as many people have been discovering, and in some cases rediscovering, great places to get out and about. Over the next eight weeks, presenters from BBC Northern Ireland will team up to take to the highways and byways across all […]
Off-duty police commander assists in suspect’s arrest
Chief Inspector Nick Sparkes was off-duty in the town centre on the morning of Saturday 21 May 2022 when he spotted a man suspected of having carried out two assaults in Ashford earlier that day. The District Commander detained the man until on-duty colleagues arrived and arrested him. Charges Mark McQuade, of Leysdown Road, Sheerness, has since been […]
Five drug dealers will spend a combined total of over 23 years behind bars after pleading guilty to multiple drug offences at Guildford Crown Court
• Carl Garton, 34, of Walden Cottages, Normandy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis, and conspiracy to produce cannabis, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison • David Caborn, 44, of Romsey Close, Aldershot, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis, and possession with intent to supply ecstasy […]
